Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 January 1914 — Page 3

NO MORE CHANCES

By WILLIAM H. OSBORNE.

Young Henry Couse was Just like other people—only more so. Deeply imbedded in his nature was a strong desire constantly to get something lor nothing. He did not gamble, but he kept a wary eye upon the lottery and upon the markets. He had another trait. He was a devoted admirer of Miss Sally Mannering. But it was this admiration that bothered him. “If I c'd only get enough of the stuff together,” he said to himself, ‘l’d pop the question. But hang it/I’m afraid I never, will.” There was one thing that young Couse did not understand. That was, that the great way to make money anywhere today, is to save it. Small sums never counted with him. He was invariably casting them’upon the waters of fortune, as a fisherman casts a worm to catch a fish. But Henry’s bait always left the hook, and he never got anything in return. However, it was winter, and Henry was hit pretty hard, and he spent a good many evenings at the home of Miss Mannering. He waß clerking it, and he said to himself that he would lay aside a little money—all he could spare. Si Hopkins was building a little mite of a house up on the hill—building it to let,, and Henry hopi<d against hope that somehow he could scrape up his courage and propose to Miss Sally; and that he could scrape up enough money by spring at least to set up with Miss Sally in that little house. So he shunned the newspapers and all the literature containing alluring offers in the shape of small investments; and shoved the lottery way back in his mind, and only thought about Miss Sally and the house. Time passed. He amassed finally the just and full sum of S6O. Fifty dollars. Think of it. Henry Couse had always made fair wages; he was a good worker; he waß a clever lad;, yet never in his life before had he possessed the sum of S6O. “What I ought to do," Henry’s batter judgment told him, “is to take this tcL Sally and let her keep it for me. That’s just the thing to do. But —” Well, Henry didn’t. And he didn’t because instead of thinking merely of renting Si’s little house, he took to building—castles in the air. One day a newspaper advertisement caught his eye. It was. headed by the wor Dollars ’* it was signed by A. Agustus Atkinson. The advertisement was very frank and clear and plain. It stated without any reservation that Mr. Atkinson, a large stock broker, had inside information on three or four of the active stocks; that he knew positively what would happen; that he had never made mistakes and that he had just made a small fortune for one of his clients ■who had taken his advice and had invested only sl6. Mr. Atkinson stated clearly that he would not accept orders; that he would merely furnish information for the trifling sum of five dollars per week, and that his client or customer must invest his money through the ordinary channels. He stated this, said Mr. Atkinson, to show his good faith. Down in the city Mr. A. Augustus Atkinson occupied a part—a part only —of in a dingy corner of a dingy byilding. He was not a broker and never had been a broker. He knew something less about tbp stock market than did Diana of Madison square. But nevertheless he made a living and a good one—with the drinks thrown in. For Mr. Atkinson had a system; a sure one—for him. The whole thing was very Bimple. When his advertisement had brought in enough flve-dol-lar bills to pay for itself, and-to make It worth Mr. Atkinson’s while to go to work, Mr. Atklnßon would sit down and write two sets of letters These letters would relate to a certain stock or commodity, say X., Y. A Z. Mr. Atkinson would advise his western customers to buy X., Y. & Z. and would advise his eastern customers to sell it. T.he result was palpable. If there was any movement whatever in X., Y. & Z., just one-half of his customers won, and the other half lost. The half that won would naturally tell all their friends about the advice and flve-dollar bills would pour in upon Mr. A. Augustus Atkinson. * Young Couse grubbed away until he had saved i|p $66. Then he wrote to Mr. Atkinson and enclosed a flvedollar bill. He stood ready with thi S6O to send it down to a good firm he knew of in the city, just as soon as Mr. Atkinson responded. Usually when he made up his mind to it, it did not take MrJ Atkinson long to answer his correspondence. His advice would consist of two or three words only: Buy so and so, or, sell so and so. But on a fateful day his correspondence was heavier than usual and he had selected a long named stock. It was a stock that had been remarkably active ini the last few days. Everybory will recall its name*-The Universal Confederated American Metallic Consolidation. This was known on ’change as the “tlca Mick.” The long name wearied Mr. Couse. and when he was half through with his list, he stopped. He had advised the first half to 1 sell stock. “Gee,” be said to himself, wearily, •‘gee, T’m tired. I’ll go out and stretch my legs a bit.” Mr. Atkinson's legs took some time to stretch; business justified it, so he thought; and they were stretched so much that they were somewhat unsteady when he •ame back. * C .

- -a--*-.- • „.v a - ■ ■ ■' . . w He picked up the list. Henry Couse, Esg,” he said to himself.—“Couse, eh. Country name that. Deri’|pd probably from Cows. Henry Couse. Hens and Cows, eh? Not bad. All right Mr. Couse. You’d better —ah, let me see; which half is this. Let’s see, I mailed those others. What did I tell ’em, anyway?” Henry Couse, Up in the Plains store, was quite unaware by what a slender thread his fate was hanging. Mr. Atkinson's memory usually was good, but it had been impaired on Ahis occasion by the stretching process. “The first lot,” said Mr. Atkinson, “why, I told ’em to buy—that’s sure. Then this half must sell. All right for you, you can sell, Henry Couse, of Frankfort Plains.” The next day Couse received a plain white envelop with an unsigned slip inside of It. This is what it said: “Sell Univ. Con. Am. Met. Con. and do it right away.”~~” Mr. Couse sold. Everybody knows now what happened. In the next three days the battle royal between the American Iron Concern and “Uca Mick” took place. Everybody remembers the crisis when “Uca Mick,” which had been 170, disappeared from sight and reappeared again at 15. It was a crash among crashes. Henry Couse contemplated it with discomfiture. “Gee," he said to himself, for he was not an adept in the mysteries of Wall street, “gee, but I’m a blamed idiot. Here I’ve been dabbling in U. C. A. and the whole bottom has fallen out of the blamed thing. Serves me right. I’ll never do it again.” The next day he received a check from his brokers for $5,000 on account. That was not all, they said there was a little more to come. For Henry..Couse had not understood the import of a sale as distinguished from purchase. He had sold at a high price, and delivered at a low price; and the difference belonged to him. Mr. Atkinson had stretehed that day to come purpose, for, through his slip of memory, every customer had sold “Uca Mick” on margin and every one had won. He does a larger business than ever, and perhaps it ’s just as well for folks to lose through him as in any other way. Mr. Henry Couße did not go to see Miss Sally Mannering on the evening that he got the check. He was too much astonished; be had to alt up half the night and look at the check steadily for hours. The next morning he went around, however. He wanted to strike while the iron vu hot . “Sally,” he said, “I’ve bought Si Hopkins’ house and came around to sees if I—could—put—the—title—inyour name.” Miss Sally Mannering thought he was crazy. But he was rational enough. For he sat himself at her side and put his arm around her waist and finally he'kissed her. And that’s no sign of lunacy. Finally..he pulled a roll of bills from his pocket. “Sally,” he said, “I want you to take these and keep them for me — for us. I’m never, never going to speculate any more. Never. I'm through. Besides,” he added, “I own some real estate and I’m going to marry you, and that’s lottery enough for any man.” Whereupon Miss Sally boxed his ears. And Henry Couse —he just laughed and let her do It. (Copyright, by Daily Story Pub. Co.)

FRENCH COLONY IS PROLIFIC

System of Land Tenure Has Much to Do With Gratifying Increase In Population. A German writer, Dr. A. Grotjahn. interested in the increasing shortage in births in France, has found a pro lisle community at the village of Mandie, near Dunkirk, says an exchange. This is a colony founded more than 200 years ago by Louis XIV. with a system of land tenure which .does not permit private ownership of the soil. Doctor Grotjahn says: “The men of Mardic marry, on an average, at twenty-four years of age, immediately after having passed the obligatory service in the navy. When a new family has thus been founded it receives for exclusive use, but not as private property, a plot of land of 22 acres and a section of shore for net fishing. . . . The families may leave to their children the land handed to them in usufruct, but they may not divide or mortgage it. The result Is that Mardic possesses a prosperous population, free of material cares, which does not rack its brain on behalf of its children’s fate, while the rest of the peasants and fishermen of France are particularly anxious in this respect. The births amounted to 43 per 1,000 of the inhabitants, a figure which is not surpassed by any civilized people.”

Matter of Pronunciation.

“And what state did you say you were from?” asked the Britisher of a gentleman to whom he had been introduced. Your breezy westerner is always glad to boost his own territory, and It was with considerable pride and emphasis that he announced: “I’m from I-o-wa, sir, the finest state In our Union.” “Bally strange, you know, about you Americans laughing at your cousins across the sea for the way we pronounce our words, C-h-o-l-m-o-n-d-e----1-e-y, as Chumley, and B-a-a-u-c-h-a-m-p as Beecham, you know. I’ve one on you now, you know, old chap. Only yesterday I met a gentleman from your state at luncheon, you know, and he said he was from your state, ’the finest In our Unioa,' and all that sort 6f> thing, only he pronounced it O-hi-o! Jove, I think that’s one on you Americans, don’t you know.”

JHE EVENING REPUBLICAN, RENSSELAER, IND.

REVIEW OF FOOTBALL

One Upset After Another Startles Followers of Game. -• Victory of Army Over Navy Climax of Season of Gridiron Surprises— How Teams Will Shape Up • for Games This Fait. With the Army beating the Navy at *the Pblo grounds, another surprise for the football season, when the game ended, was registered. The midshipmen, wfth their brilliant record in the early season games, were the favorites, but they were toppled over as Dartmouth was at the Brush stadium when a favorite over the Indians. These two surprises were as startling to many football followers as the showing earlier in the season by Colgate, and the showing the Tigers made against Harvard, which many thought would have au easy time disposing of the Orange and Black. Then came the Co’mell-Pennsylvania ‘flame, in yhich the Ithacans gave the average follower of the sport a jolt when they triumphed over the Quakers, gaining their second victory over the Red and Blue in the long series. The Indians paraded through the season with a good record, and there are some, who claim they are entitled to football honors in the east, but this is the honor Harvard men are claiming for the Crimson. Dartmouth, too, would have been out with a claim to that intangible astern title had the Green beaten the Indians. This was the only Dartmouth defeat of the season. Gridiron dopesters, now that they can get no more surprises for a year in football, are figuring how the big teams shape up next fall. Princeton and Harvard will be better off, so far as veteran material Is concerned,

Captain Storer of Harvard.

than Yale. They will lose only three men by graduation In June. Yale, on the other hand, will lose six men in June. Captain Storer, O’Brien and Hitchcock will leave Harvard on graduation day. As these men played on the line, the star Crimson back flqj’d of Brickley, Mahan, Bradlee and Logan will be left intact The graduation of Captain Storer and Hitchcock will leave the two tackle positions vacant, and there are no substitutes who have won their letters in this position. Only three substitutes who have won their “H” will be graduated. Captain Hobey Baker, Phillips and Emmons will be the men lost to Princeton by graduation, and while their loss will be greatly felt by the Tigers the coaches have some good material in the substitutes and from the freshman eleven to fill their places. Harvard may have to shift its line to fill the holes due to the graduation of Storer and Hitchcock, unless this year’s freshman tackles show up well. Yale will lose Captain Ketcham, Pendleton, Marting, Warren, Averyj and Ainsworth, played on the line. MacLeish, Hubbard, Arnold, Brann and Way won their letter this year as substitutes in the line, and the coaches believe that they can be made into a strong set of forwards. Talbot and Carter will be the only regulars left In Blue’s line. The back field will have plenty of material. Ainsworth will be the only man to be graduated, leaving Knowles, Wilson and Guernsey in their old positions. This trio will be reinforced by several strong men from last year’s! team who were unable to play this fall, including Pumpelly and Markle. Wheeler, last year’s quarter back, will be the only substitute back field player to be graduated.

Offers $10,000 for Player.

Del Howard, former manager of the Louisville team, and now manager of the San Francisco team, announces that he stands ready to give the Chicago National league team SIO,OOO for the Immediate return of Outfielder Johnny Johnson, drafted by the Cubs last September Howard is, of course, safe in his offer, inssmuch as R would be practically impossible to get Johnson, who now holds the world’s record for stolen bases in a single season, out of the major leagues.

INTERCOLLEGIATE HOCKEY CHAMPIONS

From all accounts Yale is going to play an important part again In intercollegiate hockey this coming’season. A SIOO,OOO ice rink has been constructed at New Haven. The opening of the hockey season finds the' Yale team, the crack players of the winter sport, who by defeating Harvard last year, won the championship honors, in fine shape. ' Front row, left to right: Dickey, McDonald, Odeway, Captain Heron, Gore. Middle row, left to right:' S. Coe, H. Sproul, M. Herron, W. H. Sweeney, Schiller. Back row, left to fight: Coach Howard, Mudge, P. Swift, F. H. Bangs, M. W. Gans, Jr.

SKATERS TO DECIDE HONORS

World’s Championship Will Be Settled in Meet at Milwaukee in March —Many to Compete. - L. —•- The first amateur and professional roller skating speed championship races ever held In the history of roller skating will be run off in the Riverview skating palace, Milwaukee, during the latter part of March, 1914. Julian T. Fitzgerald, president of the Western Skating association, who has been promoting the event for the past 20 months, is the general manager of the meet. Roller rinks throughout the United States were after the event, Including those at St. Louis, Kansas City, Charleston, W. Va., Detroit, Buffalo and Cincinnati. The meet was awarded to Manager Joseph W, Munch of the Milwaukee rink for SI,OOO. In April, 1912, a movement was started to raise money by popular subscription for the meet and to help defray the expenses of the amateur champions from the different states. First prize for the amateur championship is a silver loving cup. Second, third, fourth and fifth prizes will be gold, silver and bronze medals. The winner of the professional championship will be awarded a diamond medal. Other prizes will be gold, silver and bronze medals. In addition, the professionals will race for a purse of SSOO. The champion skaters of England and France arrived in American a short time ago. It is estimated that at least 300 amateur and professional skaters will compete, making the event the first real championship meet ever held in .this or any other country.

Notes of Sportdom

, Hughey Jennings announces that the Tigers will start to train at Gulfport about February 6. • • • Manager Red Dooin believes that the 1914 pennant race will be one of the toughest in National league history. • • • Georgetown Is to be dn the schedule of either Harvard or the Army next season—at least, Georgetown thinks so. • • • Harvard’s varsity football players will be asked to refrain from writing signed articles for the newspapers next season. • * • Frank Chance has worked together a pretty fair club that it is believed will cut quite a figure in the 1914 pennant race. * * • Not one of England’s five classic races for three-year-olds this season went to a favorite. The Oaks, at 8 to 1, was the lowest odds against one of the winners. * v • Tracery is coming In for all sorts of praise from the English papers, the Field particularly pointing out the remarkable achievements of August Belmont’s horse. • • • If Howard Jones declines to serve hgaln at the head of the Yale gridiron warriors, It is a certainty that the position will be offered to Frank Hlnkey, the famous shadow end. Hinkey has for several seasons assisted the head coaches.

Yale’s Star Hockey Players.

AFTER FRANK GOTCH’S CROWN

Effort Being Made to Get Zbyszko, Polish Wrestler, to Take Part in Elimination Matches. Zbyszko, the Polish wrestler, who has been competing in an open tournament in Paris, has been offered one of the largest guarantees ever made to a wrestler other than a world’s champion to return to America to

take part in elimination matches planned by a Boston promoter. Foreign stars now here include Gustaf Fristonsky, the Bohemian heavyweight; Ivan Mamutoff, a member of the Czar of Russia bodyguard, and Alex Aberg, the Finland champion. So, 'with Zbyszko and Mahmout, the Bulgarian, these men constitute the most prominent of the contenders for the crown held by Champion Frank Gotch, who has retired.

ANTIPODEAN HITS BASEBALL

<Australian Cricketer Severely Criticizes American Game—Associated With Bpirlt of Bluffing. Baseball as played In America is severely criticized by a member of the ‘’Australian cricket team which recently toured the United States and Canada. A Sydney paper containing an interview with the cricketer on the return of the team to Australia haa just been received here. “Candidly,” the Australian athlete is quoted, “I don’t like baseball as played in America. Baseball tn Australia is a fine game, played In the spirit of our cricket. But that spirit is not known in American baseball, which is a professional game and, associated with bluffing of a character foreign to the Australian and English ideas of^sport. “There is, of course, money In it, but if baseball Is ever to become & big game here it will need to be divorced from the spirit which pervades its American atmosphere.”

Joseph Lally, of the Canadian amateur Athletic union, will endeavor to have special lacrosse sticks manufactured for the use of school children which will in the future do away with the'cry that baseball was superseding the Canadian national summer gsme because it was so much cheaper to buy baseball bats than lacrosse sticks. He will donate 13 medals for the championship team of any organized school district in Canada.

Jack Chesbro, the man who invented the spit ball and the man who lost the American league championship for the Highlanders by a wild pitch, is again knocking at the door of baseball for a berth. He wants to become a manager. Re has applied to the Federal league for a Job,

Zbyszko, Polish Wrestler.

Growing Jealous of Baseball.

Chesbro Seeking Job.

FOUR RICH PUDDINGS

RECIPEB PROM FRANCE, ITALY, HOLLAND ANb GERMANY. Served a la Pompadour, Delicacy Should Be Eaten in Moderation* 1 —• Dessert of Vermicelli Something New—Bailed Pudding. ■ - 1 r , By LIDA AMES WILLIS. Pudding a la Pompadour.—Do yo» wish a French plum pudding? will find this gloriously rich: Add two ounces of fine white bread crumbs to two-thirds of a cup of cream, boiling heft. When cool, beat in five ounces of finely chopped suet, one ounce of flour, two ounces of crushed macaroons, two ounces of stoned raisins, two ounces of candied orange peel or preserved cherries, chopped; xeSt of lemon peel, grating of nutmeg. Bent well together and add yolks of four eggs and a glass of brandy. Pour Into molds and steam. Serve with a hot custard sauce flavored with orange, sherry or brandy. Italian Vermicelli Pudding.—BoO three ounces of vermicelli for 15 or 20 minutes in three cups of milk. ’ Then add two ounces of butter. Beat three eggs very light with three tablespoonfuls of sugar, and when the vermicelli is quite cold stir in the eggs and sugar. Add a few fine seeded raisins and a little vanilla. Turn into a baking dish and bake an hour in moderate oven. Serve, with brandy or chestnut sauce. A new chestnut sauce comes from the same source as the pudding. Peel, blanch and drain 20 or more large chestnuts. Cook them in a sirup of sugar and water until tender. Flavor the sirup with vanilla or cordial, and mash the chestnuts through a sieve. Mix with the sirup, than with whipped cream or: the beaten white of an egg, and serve with a plain hand sauce, using equal quantities of each. Dutch Pudding or Souster.—Take one pound of butter, half a pint of milk, two pounds of flour, eight eggs, four spoonfuls of yeast, one pound of currants and a quarter of a pound of sugar. Melt a pound of hotter in half a pint of milk, mix in the two pounds of flour, the beaten eggs, yeast and currants, washed and dried; then the sugar, sifted. Bake in a quick oven. Use three teaspoonfuls of baking powder instead of the yeast. It makes a good pndding, eaten hot, and a nice cake when cold. When intended only ’ for cake, omit the currants and use caraway seeds. German Boiled Pudding.—Take half a pound of mollases, half a pound of flour, quarter of a pound of euet, a teaspoonful of baking soda, quarter of a pint of milk and an ounce or more of candied orange peel. Mix milk and molasses first, then add the soda and suet, flour and peeL Rub all together until well mixed, pour in the molasses and boil in a bowl or basin.

Steak Hath.

Take remnants of steak and chop fine, with one small onion and potatoes, two-thirds of potatoes to one-third of meat. Heat stock or water in frying pan and add hash. Let simmer slowly for ten or fifteen minutes, watching it so it will not burn. I use the tough end of sirloin and porterhouse steak. This makes the finest: kind of hash. I always serve poached: eggs on hash and it makes a nice' breakfast dish if you use water instead of stock. Put a piece of butter in the hash. Season with salt and pepper.

Individual Pumpkin Pies.

Three cups stewed and sieved pumpkin, two eggs, one and one-half cups brown sugar, one , and one-half pints sweet milk, one level tablespoon flour, two teaspoons cinnamon, one teaspoon allspice. Line gem pans with rich piecrust, fill with above mixture and bake in moderate oven. Serve with whipped cream.

Tripe and Liver Fricasseed.

Take equal weights of tripe and liver. Fry the liver in strips; cut some cold boiled tripe in the same way, flour it and fry it also. Then cover with a thick brown gravy or stock. Serve hot, garnish with fried parsley and little heaps fried onions.

ALL AROUND the HOUSE

The light desserts are the plain and* stewed fruits, gelatins and junkets. The light dessert should always follow a heavy dinner, and vice versa. Frozen rice pudding is a delicious and iy>urishing winter deesprt. ; Knives are cleaned more easily and thoroughly with soda added to the scouring brick. Minced beets, potatoes and cucumbers served with mayonnaises make a good salad, A little borax, dissolved in warm water, will help to keep the children's teeth clean and sound. \ > | A hot water platter Is a boon to the housewife whose "men folks” are frequently late for dinner. Baked apples are delicious with their cores filled with orange marmalade or chopped nuts and sugar. An ordinary piece of mince pie Is said to be the equal in fqpd value to a piece of beet a slice of bread and a potato. "All odors end here” Is the inflexible rule of charcoal. If the charcoal is made red-hot and then cooled he* flare using its virtues are Increased, x